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Thanks both of you. I loved the mildly insane humour of the story narrators.

Betsie,

I thought, at 45 minutes for the complete volume, we might be able to get away with it, but it would be easy enough to break into two or more bits. I await the royal command.

Peter

There you go: Chapter One

(English accent, I'm afraid ... where are these southern US gentleman readers?)

http://s57.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2HBO91ROHBJU13VQTL9XTXOUXZ

Stephan,
Can I do Chapter One (part 01), please?

Here you go:

http://s59.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2ICQITBP417773UNBGS5AZYT4A

Comments welcome ... it's easy to re-record small bits. If noise is a problem, we'll just have to pass it to Gesine, and I'll buy a new sound card.

all audio files can be found on our catalog page: http://librivox.org/the-parenticide-club-by-ambrose-bierce/ Only a very short book; four rather strange short stories. There's quite a lot of Bierce on Gutenberg; if there are many of us who share his rather strange sense of humour, we have a lot of...

Stephan, you can send it to yourself via www.yousendit.com . When you've finished uploading to the site, you'll be given a URL for downloading the file, both on-screen and by email. You can then post the URL here in the thread for us to download from. ..and, with regard to the "ulla, ulla"...

I'm planning on putting John Donne's poem "Song" on the weekly poem page some time soon.

I've finished the Lament for the Irish Emigrant .. it's in the Poetry Collection thread ... but it took lots of work, and lots of editing and re-recording. Wow. As with Betsie in Anne of Green Gables, the emotion gives so much to the final recording. Perhaps we should have a specific collection of w...

Lament of the Irish Emigrant, by Helen Selina, Lady Dufferin, From Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250?1900 (from the Bartleby collection) http://s57.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0IVUDXZ4FGD2H3JJG70DKJ81YV Hard work, heavy tissue consumption, but a lovely poem. ... and ...

It reaches straight through your barriers as if they were mist, doesn't it?

I'm taking Thadine's advice: one or two verses at a time, with a pause to calm myself between.

Here I was, casually talking about reading a piece through until you no longer cried ... I was trolling through the Bartleby site for poems to add to our short poems collection, or for the weekly poem, when I hit this one. I'm totally incompetent to read it without crying, but would love to hear som...

Stephan, that's why I chose that chapter; I found it very easy to dive into his numb, shocked despair ... not that it's a major part of my life, o f course! Well, not now; only on the mornings after my lottery ticket hasn't won :) Kara, I've listened to part 25: gorgeous reading: thanks. Loved the u...

.. after all, we're spending time with our family!

There you go; penultimate chapter done. Me next in line after Kara for orphaned chapters, or if uptake is slow (if they're not all booked by the end of the year, say).

Kara, Woking is pronounced wo' - king with the wo sounding like tow, throw, go ... thinking of it, the town is pronounced like "toking". Stephan, Thanks for the compliment; I enjoy reading aloud, used to swap readings with a flat-mate years ago. Single now, I have to read to myself .. Prat...